Prison Was My Parish. By The Reverend Baden P. H.
Ball, (Heinemann, 18s.) MR. BALL has led a dedicated and interesting life. Joining the Church Army, he testified from Hyde Park to Blackpool and from Waikaremoana to Dartmoor.......
Hardy Fish
We kept an aquarium for a long time and had perch and later goldfish. For a brief period we even had tropical fish. In spite of warnings about temperature changes they did well,......
A History...completed
Tim RESTORATION OF CHAitt.ti§ II, 1658-1660. By Godfrey Davies. (0.U.P.; 55s.) IT, is nearly a hundred years since S. R. Gardiner began to write his History of England from the......
Administration Of War Production. By
J. D. Scott and Richard Hughes. (H.M. Stationery Office and Longmans, 37s. 6d.) THIS is a detailed and comprehensive review, in the series The History of the Second World War,......
Old Fruit Trees
Old fruit trees are sometimes ringed and sometimes root pruned. In general, to prune cut half the main roots one season and complete the next. Fibrous roots are never touched......
Country Life
BY IAN NIALL I HAVE just received a reprint copy of The Country Code and, if volumes more could be written to establish common ground between, townsman and countryman, at least......
Ivor Brown As An Annalist Adds To The Usual Contents
of a theatre annual his own highly individual impressions of the plays and his own selection of contributions from people Who are supposed to know about one side of the theatre......
Ash For A Queen
Logs of beech wood burn too fast, There's a fire that will not last. Chestnut's only good they say, If for long it's laid away. Poplar makes a bitter smoke, Fills your eyes and......
Chess
BY PHILIDOR No. 37. K. A. K. LARSEN (1st Prize, `Good Companions' 1920) BLACK (12 men) WHITE (11 men) WarrE to play and mate in two moves. solution next week. Solution to last......
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